Priti Patel ‘begged’ US to take British terror suspect Aine Davis, court told

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. From 2018 onwards there was a complex and difficult set of proceedings surrounding the desire of the American government to prosecute two members of the Isis cell dubbed by the UK press The Beatles Mark Summers KC, defending Previously, Mr Summers had said Ms Patel made a phone call to a US attorney general in 2022, allegedly veering into “Alice In Wonderland” territory. Outlining the saga, Mr Summers said: “From 2018 onwards there was a complex and difficult set of proceedings surrounding the desire of the American government to prosecute two members of the Isis cell dubbed by the UK press The Beatles.” Davis had been suspected since 2014 of involvement and in 2019 British MI5 officers visited him in a Turkish prison to ask him about it, the court was told. The personal involvement of the home secretary trying to persuade a foreign country to prosecute a UK national is frankly extraordinary Mark Summers KC, defending On June 18 last year, British officials learned that prosecutors in New York were seeking to extradite Davis to the US and charge him with providing “material support” to IS. “It’s difficult to overstate the illegality and irregularity of what was under contemplation for some time.” The evidence we submit is overwhelming - the Government knew full well what the Turkish deportation decision was going to be before the result, that can only be because they were involved in the decision-making process Mark Summers KC, defending He went on to allege British authorities had influenced Turkey to issue Davis’s deportation for “ulterior motives”.